Top of The Pops 1979

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Don't forget series 2 of Sounds of the 70s is being repeated overnight.

Friday, 09/05/2014, 02:20 - 02:50 (00:30)
BBC FOUR (eng)

Sounds of the 70s 2
(show/game show/speed)

5/10. Rock: The Boys Are Back in Town: A selection of rock anthems, including performances from Alice Cooper, The Dirty Faces, Nazareth, Bad Company, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy and Black Sabbath.


Sunday, 11/05/2014, 01:10 - 01:40 (00:30)
BBC FOUR (eng)

Sounds of the 70s 2
(show/game show/dope)

6/10. Soul: Keep On Keeping On: Featuring classic performances from the kings and queens of soul, including Aretha Franklin, Billy Preston, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withering and The Jacksons.


Monday, 12/05/2014, 03:15 - 03:45 (00:30)
BBC FOUR (eng)

Sounds of the 70s 2
(show/game show/LSD)

7/10. Disco: Ain't No Stopping Us Now: Featuring classic performances from the disco era, including The Jacksons, Sylvester and Tweety Pie, George McCrae, Sister Sledge, and McFadden and Shitehead.

 

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Another couple of programmes coming up.


Saturday, 17/05/2014, 20:30 - 21:00 (00:30)
BBC FOUR (eng)

Sounds of the 70s 2
(show/game show/methedrone)

8/10. Rock 'n' Roll Revisited: Get it On: Performances from the rock 'n' roll revivalism of the 1970s, from glam to AOR and all points in between. Featuring T-Rex and other legendary acts. No nudity.



Friday, 23/05/2014, 02:20 - 02:50 (00:30)
BBC FOUR (eng)

Sounds of the 70s 2
(show/game show/cider/speed)

9/10. Punk: Anarchy on the BBC: Featuring classic - and sometimes chaotic - performances from the Stranglers, the Damned, s_x Pistols, Buzz cocks and other legendary punk acts of the 1970s. Bring your own spit umbrella.

 

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Got well behind with totp 79 again, so blitzing the 5 recorded eps this morning

5/4/79

A fab week - In the Navy, Cool for Cats, Pop Muzik, & Legs & Co dancing to Sultans of Swing

 

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12/4/79

Ah the lovely Kate Bush with Wow, Neil Diamond Forever in Blue Jeans, Racy Some Girls & Supertramps Logical Song

Great to see the Bright Eyes video again - I aint seen this one for donkeys years!

 

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19/4/79 is a DLT show so got missed.

Cant find this one on line yet. It'll be edited in if it turns up.


EDIT - a partial version of the show is here:

Its missing the chart rundown and Milk & Honey after Gordon Giltrap. ALso the audio is a bit ropey in places.

Not a particularly good week for me but thats not the point - the Beeb should grow a pair & show all the episodes.

 

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26/4/79

Not a great week for me, plenty of reruns of stuff seen in earlier weeks. Although its been a very long time since I heard the slight reggae beat of Eruptions One Way Ticket. And Amii Stewart's Knock on Wood is a decent enough tune for a Sunday morning

Im pretty sure #1 Bright Eyes is being edited down to about half its length though

 

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3/5/79 is a Jimmy Saville show and got skipped.

This one is available on line though ;)

 

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10/5/79

The Damned Love Song - incongruous to see one of the guys wearing a fluffy pink and green outfit! He looked like a multi coloured Orville

Cavatina from the Shadows is still lovely, and Roxy Music's Dance Away

 

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17/5/79

Donna Summer, Earth Wind & Fire, XTC & The Undertones.

 

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24/5/79

Roxy Music Dance Away, The Damned Love Song, ELO & even Dollar are decent tracks plus one Ive been waiting for - Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric

 

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31/5/79

Interesting one to start this show off with - Quantum Jump Lone Ranger. Now I cant remember hearing this one in donkeys years - its obviously not politically correct enough to get played these days......

Chas & Dave was a crap song 35 years ago & still is, Sparks are always fun, & Squeeze Up the Junction is still holding up as a decent enough song.

 

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7/6/79

A JS week so gets skipped. Fortunately a kind soul has posted it on Vimeo ;)

A great week as well - Tourists (Im waiting for Only Want To Be With You which we get later in the year) with a very young Annie Lennox!. ELO, Tubeway Army, Nick Lowe, Eddie Grant.

A fab week!


Sadly this is the first of a 5 week block where we lose alternate weeks , lets hope they get posted on line!

 

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19/4/79 has been edited in to the appropriate post.

 

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Oh heck. The darnalls42 account on Vimeo seems to have been deleted - so now we have lots of Video Does Not Exist messages

 

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14/6/79

Legs & Co dancing to the Lene Lovich track Say When, Gerry Rafferty Night Owl, Quantum Jumps' Lone Ranger again & Squeeze Up the Junction

Great stuff

 

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21/4/79

DLT week so skipped. And not available on line yet

Which is a great pity as it was the one and only appearance of Sniff n the Tears Drivers Seat

EDIT - I found it on line - but its been deleted again.

Dollar Who were you with in the moonlight, the Dooleys Wanted, Sniff n the Tears and the aforementioned fab Drivers Seat.

However there is one of those awful performances you really dont want to see again - Dame Edna Everidge & a disco version of Waltzing Matilda. Its just horrible!

 

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28/6/79

Lots of repeat performances this week, but UK Sub Stranglehold & Bonnie Tyler Married Men make a nice change.

Oh and Chas n Dave Gertcha is still rubbish

 

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5/7/79
Another JS week, so we lose the first appearance of The Knack & My Sharona

 

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12/7/79

After several fairly static weeks with the same acts appearing we get a change as summer 1979 starts to get into full swing.

Police cant stand losing you, Supertramp Breakfast In America, the rather sweet Judy Tzuke Stay with me till dawn are all good tracks.

For me this week is rather spoiled by the horrible racket that PIL made with Death Disco!

 

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19/7/79

A cracking week Grommitt!

Dave Edmunds Girls talk, Chrissie Hynd & The Pretenders Kid, we get to see The Knack & My Sharona, Boomtown Rats I dont like Mondays, The Dooleys Wanted & Abba Voulez Vous.